TECHNOLOGY
Tickets Now on Sale for VRLA Expo - VRScout
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Jonathan Nafarrete
vrscout.com - “Rick & Morty” Co-Creator Justin Roiland will be the Keynote Speaker. Get ready to clear your calendar. Tickets for the world’s largest VR and AR convention, VRLA Expo, are now on sale. The two-day...
TalkTalk chief Dido Harding quits budget telco
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Ars Technica
arstechnica.co.uk - After seven years at the reins of TalkTalk, ex-jockey Dido Harding has confirmed that she will leave the budget telco in May. It comes after the ISP's sales and profit margins continue to be squeez...
Visual search startup Clarifai beefs up its AI team with a new San Francisco office
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Jefferson Faudan
techcrunch.com - Clarifai — a startup that gives companies and developers a way to implement visual search into their products — said today it was hiring former Google Brain developerAndrea Frome as the company’s n...
6 Things Americans Should Know About Net Neutrality
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mentalfloss.com - Net neutrality is back in the news, as Ajit Pai—a noted net neutrality opponent—takes the reins of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). Here's a brief explanation of what net neutrality is,...
Japan researchers warn of fingerprint theft from 'peace' sign
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Guy Kawasaki
phys.org - Could flashing the "peace" sign in photos lead to fingerprint data being stolen? Research by a team at Japan's National Institute of Informatics (NII) says so, raising alarm bells over the popular ...
Microsoft asks for exemptions to Trump’s immigration order for visa holders
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TechCrunch
techcrunch.com - Microsoft isn’t ending its general opposition to Donald Trump’s executive order on immigration from last week, but it is more formally requesting the granting of immediate exceptions thatwould help...
Facebook plans to be more like YouTube than Netflix as it pays for video
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TechCrunch
techcrunch.com - “We’re focusing more on shorter form content to start” Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said on today’s Q4 earnings call, where he was repeatedly questioned about Facebook’s video strategy. One thing’s...
Snap commits $2 billion over 5 years for Google Cloud infrastructure
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TechCrunch
techcrunch.com - Most of today’s Snap coverage will be about its revenue and daily average usage numbers, but there was one small tidbit that emerged which will mean big business for the company’s cloud infrastruct...
Samsung said to be looking to get on Trump’s good side by mulling a new US plant
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TechCrunch
techcrunch.com - What’s the best way to get on the new president’s good side if you’re tech company? Open a manufacturing plant in the States. Or at the very least, have someone report that you’re considering to do...
Ransomware completely shuts down Ohio town government
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TechCrunch
techcrunch.com - In another interesting example of what happens when you don’t manage your backups correctly, the Licking County government offices, including the police force, have been shut down by ransomware. Al...
‘Star Trek Timelines’ game maker Disruptor Beam raises $8.5M
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TechCrunch
techcrunch.com - Disruptor Beamhas raised another $8.5 million to turn some of the best-known entertainment franchises into mobile games. It released its first title, Game of Thrones Ascent, in 2013, with Star Trek...
How WhatsApp is fighting spam after its encryption rollout
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techcrunch.com - WhatsApp proved itself to be the most YOLO-crypto company of 2016 when it turned on end-to-end encryption by default last April for its more than 1billion users. (Facebook, WhatsApp’s parent compan...
ZeniMax says it may try to stop Oculus from selling VR headsets
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Ars Technica
arstechnica.com - The threat comes in a statement provided to Ars late yesterday, in which ZeniMax cites what it calls "uncontested" evidence of "the theft by John Carmack of Rage source code and thousands of electr...
10 website navigation trends for 2017
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Webdesigner Depot
www.creativebloq.com - Over the past year we’ve seen a lot of growth and new trends in the world of web design. And I’m noticing a lot of new trends emerging in 2017 as well. I’d like to share the top 10 emerging navigat...
Dark UX: Dirty Tricks and Tactics to Avoid in 2017
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Webdesigner Depot
www.sitepoint.com - Like most people, I was glued to my screens the night of November 8, 2016. The New York Times was my go-to media outlet for election results; after all, I trust its information more than any other ...
Facebook needs to crack down on fake “Live” videos
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Reg Saddler
techcrunch.com - Was that space walk or climb of a massive antenna tower really shot on Facebook Live? No. Is the point of Facebook Live to show a virtual clock counting down to the new year? No. Yet these are some...
In Trump, Tech Finds a Troll It Can’t Ignore
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www.wired.com - To adapt one of our new president’s favorite aphorisms: We knew he was a troll when we elected him. Throughout the campaign, Donald Trump gleefully behaved more like a social-network scourge than a...
Clutch Acquisition of Persio Boosts Mobile Customer Engagement Possibilities
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Loyalty 360
loyalty360.org - Mobile customer engagement is a major piece of the customer loyalty puzzle today and Clutch, a customer management and marketing analytics company, acquired intelligent mobile promotions platform P...
Generation X More Addicted to Social Media Than Millennials, Report Finds
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Travis Wright
www.nytimes.com - We all know the stereotype: silly millennials, tethered to their phones, unable to accomplish the simplest tasks without scrolling their Instagram feeds, snapping their friends and/or tweeting inan...
Ven.io: A Comprehensive Healthy Lifestyle Solution which Generates a Nutritional Plan that is personalized for You - Start-Ups.Co
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Debbas
www.start-ups.co - Venio provides a comprehensive healthy lifestyle solution, which generates an interactive meal-plan that is personalized around your taste, health goals, and dietary preferences. Below is the full ...
My Tour Deal : Mobile ONLY Booking App - Start-Ups.Co
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Debbas
www.start-ups.co - We had an interesting chat with Mr. “Patrick Ncho”,Co-Founder at the California – USA based Startup “MyTourDeal” Below is the interview we conducted with him: 1. What is it exactly that you do and ...
Peoplegeist: A 100% Free Social People Search Engine that Puts You in Complete Control of What Others See and Learn about You Online - Start-Ups.Co
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www.start-ups.co - Peoplegeist is, simply put, designed to make it easier to find information about people for the purpose of forming and maintaining stronger relationships. “Peoplegeist”is a social people search eng...
nspHire : Job Search App - Start-Ups.Co
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www.start-ups.co - We had an interesting chat with Mr. “Rasheen Carbin”, CMO at the US based start-up “nspHire” Below is the interview we conducted with him: 1. What is it exactly that you do and what your start-up i...
Adlet: Advertising Platform for Bloggers - Start-Ups.Co
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Debbas
www.start-ups.co - We had a nice chat with Ms. “Emma Coles”, CEO of the UK-based start-up “adlet.co” about his Company. 1. What is it exactly that you do and what your start-up is all about? Adlet is an online advert...
Sheryl Sandberg Donated $1 Million To Planned Parenthood
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Susan Cooper
www.huffingtonpost.com - Sheryl Sandberg just made quite the monetary statement in favor of reproductive rights and women’s health care.According to a report from Refinery29, independently verified by The Huffington Post, ...
How to get through border security without giving up your data
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Jefferson Faudan
mashable.com - Customs agents at United States airports often ask travelers from outside the country to hand over their phone. Agents can ask for the password, and, from there, snoop through whatever they want. T...
J.K. Rowling has the perfect response to Trump trolls burning her books
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Jefferson Faudan
mashable.com - LONDON — J.K. Rowling has had a very busy week on Twitter, even by her standards. It kicked off on Monday with a tweet about Mike Pence, then progressed to her shutting down Trump trolls again and ...
10 apps you'll definitely want at the next protest
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Jefferson Faudan
mashable.com - Overwhelmed by President Donald Trump? Attending a protest or march is one way to make your voice heard. SEE ALSO: 4 new sites to help you take action after the Women's March on Washington If you'r...
Our first look at Snapchat's biggest risks and most powerful enemies
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Jefferson Faudan
mashable.com - Snapchat essentially got its start by eliminating risk. Want to send a nude to a lover or a goofy face to a friend? Don't worry, it'll disappear in 10 seconds. SEE ALSO: Snapchat files for IPO as $...
White House site security error is more 'embarrassing' than worrying
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Jefferson Faudan
mashable.com - For days now, folks have tweeted about receiving a "connection is not private" warning when trying to access whitehouse.gov. It's an alarming thing to read when you're just trying to get some infor...
7 Less Conventional Ways to Generate Landing Page Traffic
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Tyson Quick
instapage.com - Your landing pages are the backbone of your digital advertising, and just like your central nervous system, a good landing page can handle the incoming stimuli/traffic from a variety of sources. Th...
How Apple Inc. successfully harnesses Epic Meaning & Calling
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Yu-kai Chou
yukaichou.com - Newton’s Pride is Not Just a Fruit. It’s Got Gravity. Epic Meaning & Calling is generally best communicated during the Discovery and Onboarding Phase of a Player’s Journey. You want to communicate ...
Optronics’ New Fusion Thinline Surface-Mount LED Combination Stop, Tail, Turn and Backup Lamp Is Industry’s First Bar-Style Combo Light – SAT Press Releases
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Future Lighting
www.satprnews.com - Optronics International, a leading manufacturer and supplier of heavy-duty LED vehicle lighting, announced the introduction of its new Fusion Thinline surface-mount LED combination stop, tail, turn...
GE's selling "HD" LED light bulbs
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Future Lighting
www.msn.com - These bulbs promise better-looking colors throughout your home, and they don't cost that much. Let's take a closer look. PLAYLIST GE's selling "HD" LED light bulbs CNET Bragi beats AirPods on style...
How to secure your IoT deployment in 10 steps | ZDNet
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Tamara Dull
www.zdnet.com - In nearly all cases, IoT has become almost too easy. Commodity sensors and radios make it technically simple to slap together a device and put it in the wild. Your average IT administrator would ha...
OracleVoice: SAS Sees The Next Tests For Data-Driven Problem-Solvers: Speed And Cloud
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Tamara Dull
www.forbes.com - Among the employees in highest demand are what Paul Kent calls “analytically creative problem-solvers.” Almost every company has mounds of data, but it’s these creative problem-solvers who use it t...
The Big UK Newsroom | PageWide print technology set to change the face of the retail sector
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Future Lighting
thebiguknewsroom.co.uk - Office technology sales and service provider Midshire, will be showcasing the very latest print solution to reach UK markets, at the 100% Optical Trade Show, from the 4th to the 6th February 2017. ...
Why Snap could be an amazing growth story like Facebook, rather than stalling out like Twitter
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Jason Cramer
www.cnbc.com - Snap is also showing enormous losses — it lost more than $514 million last year, way more than Twitter was losing when it went public (Facebook was already profitable). Those losses are growing mor...
CSOs reveal true cost of breaches - Help Net Security
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Lee Munson
www.helpnetsecurity.com - Over one-third of organizations that experienced a breach in 2016 reported substantial customer, opportunity and revenue loss of more than 20 percent, according to the Cisco 2017 Annual Cybersecuri...
Publisher Opens Its GDC Space to Developers Stranded by Trump’s Travel Ban
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panah
www.wired.com - Each year, the Game Developers Conference offers videogame creators from around the world the opportunity to show off their wares to hordes of eager fans. This time around, developers who can’t mak...
It's Groundhog Day. Throw some social media shade
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Jason Cramer
www.cnet.com - A giant rat comes out of a hole and sees some shade so we've gotta deal with cold weather for another six weeks. I think that's how Groundhog Day, works, right? The tradition, which I've just learn...
5 Cybersecurity Tools You Company Should Have
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WorldConsultingGroup
www.entrepreneur.com - No business, small or large, can afford to ignore cyber security. According to a recent Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report, 60 percentof cyber-attacks target SMBs, largely because they are e...
AT&T extends NetBond service to secure IoT connections
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IP - TeamTweets
www.techworld.com.au - The internet is what made IoT happen, providing a common protocol to take the place of separate, specialized networks. But the public internet itself may not always be the best path between a conne...
Fotos zeigen Super-Phone: So sieht das LG G6 aus
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Alexej Freund
www.n-tv.de - Das LG G6 wird einer der Stars des Mobile World Congress. Bilder zeigen schon jetzt, wie das Flaggschiff aussehen wird, mit dem LG gegen Samsungs S8 antritt - alles verraten sie aber nicht. LG wird...
40 Reactions (and Counting) to Trump's Travel Ban From Sergey Brin to Richard Branson
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WorldConsultingGroup
www.entrepreneur.com - In a letter to employees, Cook wrote that the order was "not a policy we support." The company acknowledged the many employees who could be impacted by it and promised the company’s assistance. "We...
Wendiger kleiner Flugroboter: "Bat Bot" ist ungefährlich für Menschen
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Alexej Freund
www.n-tv.de - Fliegende Roboter nach Art einer Fledermaus zu bauen war bislang schwierig, denn die Tiere haben einen ausgefeilten, komplizierten Flugmechanismus. Nun stellen Forscher den "Bat Bot" vor. Was kann ...
How Technology Will Affect Hardware Companies This Year
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WorldConsultingGroup
www.entrepreneur.com - Thanks to technology, today’s consumers and businesses no longer see streamlined communication as a luxury. And that trend will grow, with each generation of new devices expected to further improve...
Einladung verrät es: Samsung bringt Spitzen-Tablet zum MWC
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Alexej Freund
www.n-tv.de - Samsung wird auf dem Mobile World Congress wohl ein neues Tablet vorstellen. Das mutmaßliche Tab S3 könnte ein echter Star werden und wie sein Vorgänger Bestnoten bekommen. Wenn sich auf dem Mobile...
Dynamics 365 Priced To Scale Your Business for Large and Small Businesses
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TMC
blog.abouttmc.com - With the new Microsoft Dynamics 365, you get a business powerhouse with the combination of ERP, CRM and business apps bundled together in the cloud. The good thing about this system is that you can...
